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POCHO

POCHO is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Mexican-American, especially one regarded by Mexicans as being assimilated into mainstream American culture, often implying limited to no fluency in Spanish and disconnection from Mexican culture.

Noun

Spanglish

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish pocho (literally “discolored, faded”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use POCHO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 81.0% of possible answers.

Open Solver with POCHO Open Word Finder

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How POCHO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POCHO as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 59.5% of games, misses completely in 40.5%, and leaves about 453 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,901 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__H_ P in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position PO_HO P in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, H in the 4th position, and O in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in POCHO.

First-turn measures

All four describe POCHO used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.61 Entropy (bits)
453 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How POCHO performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,901 Rank among openers
Opening with POCHO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #11,901 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
728
4 guesses
1,248
5 guesses
311
6 guesses
24

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
22%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

POCHO can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

965 answers
193 answers
171 answers
153 answers
148 answers
118 answers
87 answers
77 answers
41 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for POCHO; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

P3O1C3H4O1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

RAILE TRONE CRANE TARSE RATEL STALE

Strategy after playing POCHO

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to POCHO.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POCHO:

40% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

40.5% →
RAILE 6.23 bits
8.1% →
TRONE 5.27 bits
7.2% →
CRANE 5.59 bits
6.4% →
TARSE 5.87 bits
6.2% →
RATEL 4.73 bits
4.9% →
STALE 5.43 bits
3.6% →
IRATE 5.00 bits
3.2% →
LIANE 4.58 bits
1.7% →
SAKER 4.29 bits
1.2% →
MATEY 4.32 bits

Research on POCHO

Game-tree analysis and word research for POCHO, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with POCHO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,329 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with POCHO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
POCHO sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).